ELL 240 Week 2 Assessment and Placement of English Language Learners

Assessment and Placement of English Language Learners. After reading Chapters 7 and 9, write a two- to three-page Reflection Paper addressing the following items:

1. Explain the purpose assessment serves when placing English language learners in appropriate educational programming.
2. There are several challenges that emerge as we assess English language learners. Describe two of those challenges.
3. Identify and defend solutions to the challenges you described.

Support your description with research-based evidence and cite your scholarly sources. Develop your ideas around what research has revealed. You paper must be two to three pages in length (double-spaced, not including the title and reference pages). Use the course text and one additional scholarly source to substantiate your claims. Your paper must be in APA format.